The Best Music Games for Linux

Update : Sound Horizons added at rank #14.
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Poosh XL (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux

Poosh XL is a neon-infused, one-button arcade score chaser. That's it! That pretty much says it all. If you like that first sentence you'll probably enjoy this game. Otherwise, refund it, I don't care, I just work here. (The spiritual successor to Ding Dong XL)

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  • music
  • electronic
  • attack
  • score
  • procedural
  • runner
  • arcade
  • touch-friendly
  • family-friendly
  • minimalist
  • colourful
  • mouse
  • 2d
  • controller-support

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Frequency (2023)

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early access ps2 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Drive the world and make it dance as you piece together the geometric puzzles and build musical tracks that are intertwined.


  • multiple-endings
  • music
  • space
  • choices
  • instrument
  • walking-simulator
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • online-capable
  • pixel
  • cyberpunk
  • humor
  • rhythm
  • interactive
  • minimalist

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A Musical Story (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X IOS iPhone Android Playstation 5 Mac OS Linux

‘A Musical Story’ is a rhythm game set against a 70s backdrop. Explore the memories of Gabriel, a young man trying to come to terms with his situation through the connections to his musical memory.


  • rhythm
  • music
  • instrumental
  • psychedelic
  • rock

4

Quaver (2020)

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PC Windows amstrad cPC Windows apple ii atari 8-bit commodore 64 msx Mac OS Linux

Quaver is a community-driven and open-source competitive rhythm game with two game modes and online leaderboards. Create your own maps or challenge the world in online multiplayer matches.

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  • rhythm
  • music
  • competitive
  • community-driven

5

Rhythm Doctor (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.

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  • rhythm
  • music
  • editor
  • pixel
  • level

6

Beat Hazard 2 (2019)

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Android Oculus Rift HTC Vive Linux Playstation 3 Xbox 360 IOS iPhone PC Windows

Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.


  • music
  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • procedural
  • rhythm
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • driven

7

Tempo Trigger (2023)

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PC Windows Linux

Tempo Trigger is a rhythm and aiming skill game. Players can compete in the leaderboard or create something truly memorable with stream chat.

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  • music
  • procedural
  • attack
  • score
  • first-person
  • rhythm
  • shooter
  • psychedelic
  • fps
  • colourful
  • 3d
  • space
  • arcade
  • atmospheric

8

Mixolumia (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

In this entrancing musical arcade puzzler, diamond blocks slide together on a gem-shaped board and explode in glittering chain reactions.

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  • attack
  • score
  • music
  • moddable
  • abstract
  • match-three
  • relaxing
  • minimalist
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • soundtrack
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • arcade
  • 2d

9

Intralism (2016)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Intralism - fast and hard rhythm game. Listen to music and match arcs to the beat. Master all beatmaps or create your own and challenge friends in the online multiplayer. But remember: wrong button - failed try.

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  • music
  • rhythm
  • editor
  • level

10

Beat Hazard (2010)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Mac OS Linux

Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.


  • music
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • rhythm
  • arcade
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • boss
  • space

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